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• It is built-in for EHR-integrated systems and can be developed in
stand-alone LIS
• Clinicians use it heavily immediately after surgery (communicate
with patient, family, advise other team members of immediate
steps..)
• Clinicians also use it around the time of release of final report to
correlate preliminary versus final results
• It significantly reduces miscommunication between pathologists
and surgeons
• Next step: If stored as a discrete data field, the intraoperative
diagnosis can be exported to the operative note
Real-time reporting of intraoperative
consultation (IOC) in EHR